Shell access is available on Maseeh College Unix systems

Use your UNIX login name and password when you connect to the following hosts:

Secure Shell - ssh

If you wish to log on to a remote computer from a Maseeh College supported UNIX lab computer, use the ssh (Secure Shell) command:

ssh hostname

hostname is the name of the computer (or the IP address) you want to connect to (e.g. betelgeuse.cs.pdx.edu or apollo.ece.pdx.edu).

If you need to login as a different user there are two things you can do:

• Use the -l username option (where username is the user you wish to login as).
           ssh -l username hostname
   
  

• Specify your user name before the host name:

          ssh username@hostname

If you wish to log on to a remote computer from a computer running Windows or from a Maseeh College-supported Windows lab computer, use a terminal emulator like PuTTY with SSH version 2. Secure Shell uses strong encryption, which keeps communication with the remote machine secure.

If you wish to log on to a remote computer running Mac OS X:

On your Mac from the pulldown under Go:

1. Select Applications

2. Open the Utilities folder

3. Double-click the Terminal utility to start it

4. In the command-line (versus graphical) interface window enter

           ssh username@hostname

Here's a list of free SSH implementations available on the net:

Download and install SSH on the machine you will be connecting from.
For more info on SSH go here

We are currently running: SSH compatible with protocol version 1.5 & 2.0. Our SSH servers support RSAREF.

NOTE: We recommend against using any SSH program that does not support SSH version 2. We will be switching to version 2 exclusively in the future due to security flaws in version 1. Recent versions of PuTTY  support both SSH2 and port forwarding.